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Chris Bell is tagged as: power pop, singer-songwriter, rock, melancholy, pop

Chris Bell (January 12, 1951–December 27, 1978) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s. Chris Bell left the group after their first album, #1 Record, but contributed some music and lyrics to their second LP, 1974’s Radio City. He recorded as a solo artist for the remainder of the 1970s; two of these influential solo recordings, “I Am The Cosmos” and “You And Your Sister,” were released on a 1978 single on Car Records. These two songs became popular among collectors of Big Star-related items, and they were later covered on the 1991 Blood album.
Bell began to concentrate on solo work after leaving Big Star, recording demos at Ardent Studios and Shoe Recording in Memphis with old friends including Richard Rosebrough, Terry Manning, Bill Cunningham, Ken Woodley, and occasionally Chilton and Jim Dickinson. During the late 1970s, a few of Bell’s pop song lyrics began to evince influences from his newfound interest in Christian spirituality. He worked at his father’s restaurant as he grappled with clinical depression. Although he released the single in 1978, none of his solo material was released on a full ...
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Top 10 Chris Bell Songs
I Am The Cosmos
Speed of Sound
You And Your Sister
Better Save Yourself
Psychedelic Stuff [Original Mix]
Get Away
I Got Kinda Lost
Make a Scene
Look Up
Speed Of Sound (Soundtrack Version)
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I Am the Cosmos
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The Annointed Testimony
I Am the Cosmos / You and Your Sister
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